Sony Files Copyright Complaints Against Anyone Talking About ‘No Man’s Sky’

In the face of a looming release date and the scandalous leak of an unofficial version of the game, it would seem that Sony has become akin to an overprotective parent. This is shown clearly by how many YouTube videos about “No Man’s Sky” have been manually flagged in supposed violation of copyright rules, thus leading them to be taken down. The worst part is that now, “Hello Games” has to take part of the abuse as a result of the rampant copyright complaints.

To be clear, Sony is not filing copyright complaints against everyone; just those on YouTube. Specifically, the strikes are directed at those on YouTube who are talking about “No Man’s Sky,” a recent article by Game Informer reports. The complaints have since been rescinded, but the move by Sony is an indication of just how invested the company is as the publishers of the game.

In the article, one of the YouTubers who were hit with the complaint was one Steven Thomas. Game Informer reached out to Thomas to talk about the incident and he obliged by talking about the videos that were taken down, as well as the livestream playthrough that he was planning.

“During this livestream I gave everyone a run through of the new updates from the game’s website,” Thomas told Game Informer. “I also gave my thoughts and opinions. Some people would ask me that are not familiar with my channel if what I was showing is new gameplay footage or not and I would clarify to everybody, verbally, that what I was showing is of the old gameplay footage. I am FIRMLY against others violating street date and uploading gameplay prior to release without express written permission.”

As a result, Hello Games CEO Sean Murray himself had to intervene on the behalf of the content creators affected by the strikes, according to Polygon. Murray Tweeted that he would discuss the matter with Sony, which likely led to the reinstatement of the YouTube videos that were taken down.